Electrodepositing device



NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE..

JAMES w. lconfondu, oF DUBUQUE, I owA.

'SPECIFICATION forming part of Ifetters Patent No.`580,451, dated April 13, 1897.

Application tiled J une 22, 1896- Berlal No. 596,564. (No model.)I

invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to au improvement in electrodepositing devices; and it consists, essentially, iu a tank and, xed rods for the hooks which support the articles to be deposited upon in the bath, mounted -above the tank, combined with an endless belt which is moved endwise longitudinally below them and to which the hooks supporting the articles to be plated are loosely connected while suspended from said rods, as will be more fully described hereinafter.

In the accompanying drawings,which illustrate my invention, Figure 1 is a plan view of a mechanism which embodies my invention. Fig. 2. is a side elevation of the same, a por-l tion Vof the tank and mechanism being removed. Fig. 3 is au end view of the same portions being broken away.

Like figures of reference denote corresponding parts in all of the drawings. y

In the drawings, 1 represents the tank containing the bath, and mounted above its central portion in suitable supports at each end of the tank are the stationary rigid rods 2,

'which not only serve to support-thehooks 7,

but also toconvey the cathode-current to the hooks and the articles to be deposited upon.

Mounted in suitable bearings 3 at each end of the tank are shafts 4, and secured to each of them is a pulley 5, around which the endapplied. This endless belt is provided with a'series of perfor-ations 9 along its central portion and a series of notches 10 in each edge, the notches being placed exactly opposite the A central perforation, so as to receive the shanks of the hooks.

p osited upon in the bath, engaging The articles to be plated are hung upon the lower ends of the hooks 7, which extend a suitable distance below thetop of the bath, while their bent upper ends engage the supporting-rods 2 Vand pass down through the central perforatious 9 in .the belt and their Shanks engaging the notches 10 in the belt. Then as the belt travels around the tank beneath the rods 2 it will draw the hooks along on the rod 2, and with the hooks the articles hung upon theirlower ends, through the bath.

To avoid the danger of imperfect contact between the rods 2 and the hooks 7, metallic bars 11 may be used, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, in which case the bars extend from one end of the tank to the other in such a relation to the rods 2 and belt that'the Shanks of the supporting-hooks 7 'will bear directly against said bars 11. Through these bars 11 also the cathode-current may be supplied and the arthrough the bars 1l, and thus the cathodecurrent will always be uninterrupted.

The usual anodes 12 are suspended within the bath from the top of the tank.

HavingA now described my invention, I claim- 1.An electrodepositing device consisting of a tank containing a depositing-bath, with anode connections, a rigid rod above the tank, hooks for suspending the articles to be desaid rod, cathode connections with the articles in the bath, through said rod and hooks, and a belt traveling beneath said rod and engaging said hooks'for drawing the v'hooks along on said rod, and with them thearticles in the bath, as and for the purposes shown.

2. An electrodepositing device, consisting of a tank containing a depositing-bath, having anode connections, a supporting metallic bar above the bath, hooks to which the articles to be deposited upon are suspended within IOO the bath from said supporting-rod, and bearl ing against the metallic bar, and a. belt traveling below the supporting-rod andv adapted to engage the said hooks, whereby thehooks are drawn along on said rod and With them the articles in the bath, .as and for the purposes shown. v

5 3. In `an electrodepositing device, means for advancing the articles along in the bath, consisting of one or more rods above the bath, hooks for suspending the articles in the bath, hanging upon said rod, and a belt traveling xo below said rod and having holes and notches therein which engage with the points and Shanks of said hooks, for drawing the hooks along on said bar, and with them the articles through the bath, lsubstantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature I5l in the presence of two witnesses.

JAMES W. CONCHAR. Witnesses: M. E. EDDY,

M. M. CADY. 

